The NWAPDA NW Area and National Business Meetings were held on June 21, 2007

On the social agenda there was the Annual APDA NW Golf Tournament, held at Green Meadows Golf Club in Vancouver, WA. The APDA banquet was held on the evening of June 21, at the Sheraton.

The NW APDA currently has 228 Regular, 33 new, 7 associate and 98 life members.

The 2008 NW APDA Spring and National meeting are scheduled to be held in Portland, Oregon, hosted by Portland General Electric. The tentative dates are June 17-18, 2008 in conjunction with the Spring NWPP meetings.

***** Report of Area President *****

Database work is almost complete. Thanks to Marck Robinson at Power Data for all his work and a special thanks to Matt Sadinsky for his assistant ace on this project.

Michelle Wynne has contacted me about the CAISO wanting to host a joint meeting for the open slot in the fall of 2009. The location being suggested is Lake Tahoe.

Meetings continue to be improving and so is attendance. Please preview your trainer’s courses to be sure they are pertinent to System Operators and to eliminate a lot of repeats. By adding CEH’s to the meeting agendas, the host utilities ability to show off their company’s programs and projects, sometimes get lost, due to time constraints. The meetings used to be 2 full days but got shortened to accommodate the NWPP’s time schedule. Now that the NWPP is out of the picture, the entire meeting is for the APDA items. We enjoy hearing about various Utilities and it gives a nice break from the NERC training.

A new President will be elected today.

Thank You to Avista Utilities and Warren Maxvill for hosting the Fall NWAPDA 2007 meeting

*****Report from the Vice President*****

Nothing to report

***** Report from the Committees *****

Scholarship  Remember the submission date has been changed to April 01

Promotional  Scott Downey is looking for a new vendor to supply APDA shirts in a timely fashion.

***** Unfinished Business *****

Kevin Conway brought up the new Gonzaga Power Simulator being run by Peter MC Kenney the possibility of donating monies or expertise to assist with this system.

Robert Williams made a motion to donate no more that $3000.00, which was seconded by Arlen Simon. Doug Krust will speak with Gonzaga on how we may be able to assist them. The decision will be made prior to the Spring 2008 meeting. The officers will discuss and will poll area contacts prior to making a donation.

The spring 2008 NWPADA meeting in Portland is going to try once again to work with the NWPP to have a joint meeting.

Bobbie Roberts made a motion to change the annual scholarship to $1000.00. Bob Wesselink seconded. After opening the floor to discussion the motion passed.

The spring 2008 NWAPDA meeting will be hosted by Portland General Electric and located in Portland, Oregon... The tentative dates are scheduled for June17, 18 2008 Contact person at Portland General Electric is Bob Wesselink.